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Your construction is poor. Your first line effectively says "I am ignoring all debate about rationality and applying my own definition, a decision is rational when it satisfies condition X." Why r...
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#4: Attribution notice removed
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2019-12-19T22:13:07Z (over 4 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T06:55:12Z (over 4 years ago)
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Your construction is poor. Your first line effectively says "I am ignoring all debate about rationality and applying my own definition, a decision is rational when it satisfies condition X." Why reference all the debate only to dismiss it? Plus, if **_I or any other professor_** is reading this; I reject your dismissal out of hand: No author gets to unilaterally redefine the meaning of a word like "rational", and I shall be the judge of whether condition X is sufficient or not. Say, "For the purposes of this paper, we shall consider a decision rational if and only if it satisfies condition X." Or instead of "we" (commonly used in academic papers even for a single author; it includes the audience) you could say "the author", or "I" for presentation in other venues. Even then my caveat about retaining the right to decide for myself whether X is good enough remains, but at least I am forewarned and can read the paper in the light it was written. Perhaps more subtle variations of "rational" need not be considered.
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2017-08-21T10:37:20Z (over 6 years ago)
Original score: 2